Does anyone know why they’re actually called “Smurfs?”
Comes from 2 old Warcraft 2 players from about 1996…
Created new accounts to troll people called PapaSmurf and Smurfette.
But the “trick” isn’t new, it is a centuries old carney trick.
i think the OP did a good summary of what they are.
but yeah, i know the original story where the word came from.
came from WC2 where 2 players named Papa smurf and Mama smurf (i believe) and they wanted to have fun pretty much playing and toying with beginner players and they did this by creating lobbies fooling their opponents making them believe that they were beginners too and then when in-game proceeded to obliterate them.
difference between that and overwatch form of smurfing is that there was no points to be lost due to it and you could leave without getting punished for it.
but yeah, that’s the story.
Its also an issue for people leaving matches… they can just rage quit from ranked and then switch to their other smurf account and not be banned.
100% it isn’t fun. And the people doing it should be embarrassed.